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by takeoutweight 4522 days ago
A good reference is Andrew Appel's "SSA is functional programming"[1] which discusses the similarities. There are practical differences between SSA, ANF, and CPS, but the similarity at a high level is quite strong.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.3...